CMU LibGuides: Environmental History: Collections, Papers, and Diaries

Collections, Papers, and Diaries

"California As I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
Search or browse full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts from the Gold Rush to the turn of the twentieth century. It covers "the pioneer experience; encounters between Anglo-Americans and the diverse peoples who had preceded them; the transformation of the land by mining, ranching, agriculture, and urban development; the often-turbulent growth of communities and cities; and California's emergence as both a state and a place of uniquely American dreams."
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University)
Scanned images of core agricultural books from the 19th and 20th century.
Documentary History of Conservation in America
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Early Encounters in North America This link opens in a new window
Narratives, diaries, journals, and letters of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials.

Environmental Debate: A Documentary History
HUNT STCKS-2 GE197 .E7 1999

Environmental Issues Online This link opens in a new window
Environmental Issues Online brings together multimedia materials (text, archival primary sources, video and audio) around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more. The database is curated around specific environmental issues and events from the 20th and 21st centuries. Database Guide

Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
Search or browse books and pamphlets, Federal statutes and Congressional resolutions, excerpts from the Congressional Globe and the Congressional Record, Presidential proclamations, prints and photographs, historic manuscripts, etc.
Industrial Hygiene Collection
Housed at Carnegie Mellon's Mellon Institute Library, the collection includes a wide variety of materials on the environmental health issues of workers, such as: publications from the Air Hygiene Foundation of America, Inc., (1936-1940); the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, Inc., (1941-1969); and the Industrial Health Foundation (1970-present). Materials also include journals, annual reports, information circulars, and bulletins from the Chemistry and Toxicology Series, Legal Series, Medical Series, Management Series, Nursing Series, Preventive Engineering Series, as well as Proceedings, etc.
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
HUNT OVSZQ-2 F592.4 1983 vol. 1
HUNT STACKS-2 F592.4 1983 vols. 2-8
Journals of Lewis and Clark (University of Virginia)
Letters from Alaska by John Muir
HUNT STACKS-3 QH31 .M78 A3 1993
Lewis and Clark: Journey of the Corps of Discovery (PBS)
Love Canal Collections
An introduction to the history and background of the events that occured at Love Canal. Includes two chronologies of events, scanned documents of the Ecumenical Task Force, database of Love Canal articles, and a glossary of definitions for individuals, organizations, businesses, government agencies, chemical waste dump sites, and major issues relating to the Love Canal and other local environmental disaster areas.
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
HUNT STACKS-3 OVSZ QH31 .M9 A3 1988
New Perspectives on the West (WETA, PBS)
Maps, photographs, documents, timeline, etc.
River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold
HUNT STACKS-3 QH81 .L557 1991
River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold
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Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
HUNT STACKS-2 F592.4 1969B 969B vols. 1-8
Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
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Theodore Roosevelt's America; Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist
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